8 NOBEL LAUREATES and 3 FIELDS MEDAL HOLDERS
Rome caput mundi mathematicae, but since mathematics is transnational, this year the festival is also taking place across the Atlantic. The first session of the 2009 Festival is being held in New York, at Columbia University's Italian Academy for Advanced Studies and at the Italian Cultural Institute. They will host, among others, the Nobel Prize winners for economics Daniel Kahneman and John Nash, the Nobel Prize winner for physics Sheldon Glashow, the renowned string theorist Brian Greene, the esteemed professor of philosophy Achille Varzi, and the great mathematicians Benoît Mandelbrot, Harold Kuhn, Thomas Banchoff, and Claudio Bartocci, who will tell us how to save the world with numbers.